Clarkson furore

[Agrajag]

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I agree with the slow kid.

[Agrajag]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pDTiFkXgEE&feature=related[/youtube]

[Skweeky]

Still makes me laugh!

[Agrajag]

It's fucking ace.

[Skweeky]

It's on tonight btw; BBC 4, 9PM.

[Agrajag]

Football > *.*

[Skweeky]

It'll be on iPlayer.

[Biggles]

Are there people out there employed to be offended these days?

[Agrajag]

Are there people out there employed to be offended these days?

The Telegraph was interesting when they juxtaposed Clarkson and Ross / Brand.

[Agrajag]

Well, here’s a complaint of my own: we’re complaining far too much now. I won’t defend Clarkson’s line as a joke: it’s not very funny. But I don’t agree that it’s offensive in the way that Brand and Ross were. Brand and Ross humiliated a blameless man on national radio. They picked on somebody.

Clarkson did not. He made a flippant remark about a kind of person – nobody specific, just a stereotype, a caricature. It wasn’t subtle, it wasn’t clever, it wasn’t tasteful. But it wasn’t intended to hurt.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/m.../04/do0405.xml